Quadro RTX 4000 with Max-Q Design: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 with Max-Q Design is the efficiency-tuned record of Turing's upper-mid professional silicon — the same 2304-core, 8GB die as the full-power Quadro RTX 4000, re-badged and re-clocked for thinner workstation chassis. This guide covers its 23 benchmarked games at 1080p (16 with medium-preset data) and the 59 catalog models matched to it.

Where the Quadro RTX 4000 with Max-Q Design sits in 2026

A catalog score of 61.8 ranks it 73rd of 341 — the top quarter. The neighbors: the GeForce RTX 3050 (63.1), RTX 500 Ada Generation (62.6) and RTX 3050 6GB Laptop (61.9) above; the Radeon RX 7600S (61.6), Vega Frontier Edition (61.5) and RX 6800S (61.3) below. Eighteen slots separate this record from its full-power sibling (55th) — the price of the efficiency tune, paid in ranking.

What the chip brings

Turing architecture on 12nm: 2304 CUDA cores rated at 7.1 teraflops, 8GB of GDDR6, RT and tensor cores with CUDA and DLSS flagged. The public-benchmark comparison against the full-power record is the cleanest Max-Q demonstration in this catalog: PassMark 14843 versus 14847 — statistically identical — while GeekBench Vulkan drops from 78950 to 62420, a fifth of compute throughput surrendered to the efficiency tune. Same silicon, same rasterization engine, measurably less sustained compute.

FPS in games at 1080p

The game table matches the full-power record row for row — as rasterization-bound workloads should: F1 2020 at 171 fps (207 on medium), Dirt Rally 2.0 at 151 (181), F1 2018 at 142 (180), For Honor 141 (148), The Witcher 3 132, DOTA 2 Reborn 130, Far Cry 5 100 (106) and Battlefield V 87 (101 on medium). The Max-Q tax shows in the compute benchmarks, not in the frame counters — at 1080p the tuned variant renders the same experience its sibling does.

Laptops that carry it

The 59-model roster is shared with the family's other records — the fuzzy match pools all RTX 4000 name variants: ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 at $1760, ZBook Fury G1i 16/18 at $1760, Dell Pro Max 18/16 Plus at $1440, Precision 5690 and ZBook Fury 16 G11 at $1408, Precision 7780 at $2099, ThinkPad P1 Gen 6 at $2340, and the $1126 tier of Precision 5680/7680 and ZBook Fury 16 G10. Listings match the name family rather than one variant — verify which record the specific machine's GPU corresponds to. Fleet medians (best-GPU 66.9, gaming index 86, USComp 75) describe the machines across their configuration ladders.

Bottom line

This record's value is comparative: it quantifies what Max-Q actually costs. Answer — a fifth of compute throughput and eighteen ranking slots, with the 1080p game experience essentially unchanged. Buyers choosing between RTX 4000 variants in used workstations can treat the game table as identical and decide on compute needs: heavy CUDA workloads favor the full-power record; gaming and viewport duty makes the difference irrelevant. The 8GB buffer, DLSS and ray-tracing hardware are common to both, and both age into 2026 as strong upper-mid professional options.